[detaro]

> This story is not about politics (i.e. about a political issue), it is about a political leader and his wife.

That's worse. Political issues as at least typically have different perspectives to discuss, people-facts do not. This doesn't need to be on the front page.

[plessthanpt05]

> Political issues as at least typically have different perspectives to discuss, people-facts do not.

If people-facts do not have different perspectives to discuss, then why would the death of someone (regardless of who they are) be relevant to HN (even though they are routinely on the frontpage)? Or as user "bdcravens" wrote above, then "Articles about Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, or Chelsea Manning would also be subject to those rules", but are also routinely on the frontpage.

[detaro]

Typically, the death is not the thing being discussed, but the death is taken as a point to discuss/share stories about/... the person - and not every death is discussed here. Whereas the current US president already comes up in discussions all the time.